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Qingyuan Young Professors’ Club derives from the former site of Qingyuan Primary School in Qingyuan Village, Tonglu County, Hangzhou. It includes two reconstructed old school buildings and a new building which can contain one hundred people. The site of the project will be Young... Architectural Design and Research Institute of Zhejiang University

MaisonA is nestled on the side of the hill on the plot. The building is discreet, but its pure lines show great strength of character. The materials used – wood and white concrete – are contemporary, but the whole fits in perfectly with the protected site. Pietri Architectes

Varde Museums, BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group, and Tinker Imagineers celebrate the opening of TIRPITZ – a sanctuary in the sand that acts as a gentle counterbalance to the dramatic war history of the site in Blåvand on the west coast of Denmark. BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group

Château St. Gerlach is an estate near Maastricht, situated in the middle of the hilly Limburg countryside: a unique complex with a luxury hotel, restaurant and spa. Mecanoo architecten designed an elegant pavilion which balances the historic buildings on the site. Mecanoo

On the site of Skjervsfossen (Skjervet waterfall), Fortunen have designed a small service building consisting of two restrooms and a small technical room, while the landscape design is made by Østengen & Bergo. Fortunen AS

The place where Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army used to station is particular not just for its role as a historical site. Its particularity is defined by the broken walls, silent and solemn gravel ground, rails extending to infinity, and the desolate lofty elms surrounding it, even before... He Jingtang/ADRISCUT

This project is a rebuild of an existing post 1991 Fire-storm house. Situated high on top of the Eastbay mountain range overlooking the city of Oakland, the site has unobstructed view’s toward the southwest Bay and Golden Gate. It was designed for a young family, who desired an open plan... Terry & Terry Architecture

Qianfoya Cliff Inscriptions in Guangyuan, Sichuan Province date back to about 1700 years ago in North Wei Dynasty (4th Cn. AD). Due to their severe deterioration, the National Administration of Cultural Heritage firstly approved an experimental project of conservation architecture to protect a... Architectural Design and Research Institute of Tsinghua University

Drexel University’s Hillel House is sheathed in local red brick as textured fabric draped in an abstract menorah that terraces down to the street. Arranged on four interconnected levels, the square building has thickened side walls which contain services, and four central columns which... Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects Inc.

The transformation of a former car show room on the outskirts of a housing estate into a site of the MY DVA group, focusing on the production of office, school and metal furniture, represents another finished structure of the young architecture firm CHYBIK + KRISTOF Architects & Urban... CHYBIK + KRISTOF Architects & Urban Designers

The client for this project has a large art collection, and wanted to start a new chapter in life with his family in a house with museum-like qualities that would take advantage of this collection. The neighborhood surrounding the site is quiet, so in order to keep noise to a minimum and not... APOLLO / Satoshi Kurosaki

This Contemporary Music Centre (SMAC) is a musical complex consisting of two auditoriums of very different kinds and recording studios, linked by a public space called the deck, running from one side of the building to the other. Hérault Arnod Architectes

London-based practice Architects of Invention has submitted a design proposal for 500 residential units in Birmingham’s Digbeth area. The practice was approached by Chinese private equity fund PGC- Capital whose The Jewel Court, 77 one-two bed luxury apartments, is already on site in... Architects of Invention

Kwong Von Glinow Design Office has been awarded first prize for their New York Affordable Housing Challenge competition entry. Their project responds to Mayor de Blasio’s priority placed on creating more affordable housing in New York City, by using both new sites and redeveloping existing... Kwong Von Glinow Design Office

Stirling Prize-winning architect Allford Hall Monaghan Morris has designed an emblematic headquarters for the Metropolitan Police Service in London. The £60m new headquarters is a radical re-modelling and extension of the Curtis Green Building, a 1930s prominent riverside site in... Allford Hall Monaghan Morris

The building is located on the higher grounds of Geneva’s Mervelet neighbourhood. At the heart of a rapidly changing residential area, the site has the remains of a garden-city with scattered century-old houses and trees. NOMOS - Groupement d'Architectes

The plot is located at the interface between two very different urban logics: on one side, a modern district made up of wide public spaces and large-sized buildings, on the other, the historical town-centre consisting of smaller slate-roof buildings. Hérault Arnod Architectes

The site for the new Pyeongchang-dong Art Complex in Seoul is located in the beautiful mountainous site of Bukhansan, a historical and most beloved central nature feature in Seoul. Architects for Urbanity

The celebratory piece Eclipse marks the 20th anniversary of the classification of the historic centre of Porto as Unesco World Heritage site. A temporary installation, Eclipse is a project by architecture studio FAHR 021.3 who created a sphere that temporarily shifts the centre of the city square... FAHR 021.3

With a completely re-conceptualized conversion and extension, the Wadden Sea Centre - gateway to the UNESCO World Heritage Site - has recently been opened to the public in Ribe on the west coast of Denmark. At the new Wadden Sea Centre, internationally renowned Danish architecture firm Dorte... Dorte Mandrup

[Misfit]fit is a new six-storey, 32,000 square foot boutique office building situated on a small vacant site in Toronto's Liberty Village. Batay-Csorba Architects

The historical site of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, rue de Richelieu, has just reopened after ten years of complete renovation by the architects Bruno Gaudin and Virginie Brégal. Bruno Gaudin & Virginie Brégal Arcitectes

Situated on a slight slope, the building is located in the center of a public park surrounded by several communal buildings. The image of the east entrance of the site has been requalified by the new construction whereas to the west, bleachers connect the building to the new esplanade. Stendardo Menningen Architectes

Building a single-occupancy home over a former water cistern was the starting point of the project. The site, subsequently altered over time, reached its final configuration circa 1955. It has two levels, facing south, and has remained unaltered since then. Valdivieso Arquitectos

Spatial practice completed a site-specific light installation in Tokushima, Japan, titled Indigo Waterfall. The permanent fiber optic lighting installation debuted at the Tokushima LED Art Festival 2016 flanking both sides of Kasuga Bridge, creating the perception of indigo ink spilling... spatial practice

The Bassins à flots are a 162 ha niche site, a high-quality port and manufacturing district for which Bordeaux City Council has development plans. Nicolas Michelin’s instructions are to create a link between the site and the horizon and to build on the metaphor of the... Hamonic+Masson & Associés

Step right into the middle of this year’s Christmas tree at Utzon Center and get an experience out of the ordinary, designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM), the architects behind the current Utzon Center exhibition, Sky’s... Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

The new European Council and Council of the European Union features a glazed double facade made from an outer skin of crystal clear single glazing with a patchwork of recycled old oak windows from demolition sites all over Europe and an inner skin of crystal clear double glazing. SAMYN and PARTNERS

The project is located at the heart of a city block in a school playground. The new volume extends an existing school building up the slope of the passageway that leads onto the site, and settles itself onto the playground’s sloping surface. Joly & Loiret

Surrounded by a rapidly urbanizing village settlement, the seven-acre site is on the outskirts of New Delhi. The site’s existing rocky terrain posed a significant challenge to the spatial planning of the site. Amit Khanna

The Cloud is a site specific work created by the architectural firm Shjworks. The project introduces stay, light and place making in a recreational space belonging to a social housing estate in Copenhagen. Shjworks

The site for this 4000 sf residence consists of a steep descending hillside property within the Hollywood Hills. Aaron Neubert Architects

The small house is in the depths of the alley of Yanaka, Taitou-ku. From the site facing the temple, a good persimmon tree and big cherry tree are seen over the gravestones. aat + makoto yokomizo architects

Recently, Shanghai organized an international competition for the new Art Museum of Pudong. The site of the project is located at a prominent spot on the tip of Pudong’s Lujiazui CBD area directly below the Oriental Pearl Tower. OPEN Architecture

The new Currency Museum is located on the bay waterfront of Luanda, in the heart of the city downtown, at the Major Saidy Mingas Square, nearby the charismatic headquarters of the National Bank of Angola. Costa Lopes

The Steam Canoe, designed and installed by OCAD University students in joint venture with Grip Metal™, was on display on the shores of Lake Ontario, Canada, in February and will be re-erected at OMI Sculpture Park in Ghent, New York, come October. OCAD University